The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), KAYODE EGBETOKUN, has ordered the posting of 54 Assistant Commissioners of Police to head the Force Intelligence Departments at zonal and state command levels nationwide with immediate effect.

The Force Public Relations Officer, OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI, in a statement, said this was in furtherance of the upscaling of the intelligence department of the Nigeria Police Force.

He noted that the posting was premised on the zeal of the IGP to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the intelligence department at every level of the force as a panacea to addressing the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement.

According to the statement, EGBETOKUN tasked the newly appointed senior officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility.

He further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience while discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force.